Trends and challenges in tuberculosis in a medium-sized southern European setting

International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 645-648

  Pasticci, Maria Bruna ^a   Mazzolla, R ^a   Mercuri, A ^a   Gamboni, G ^a   Bombaci, J C ^a   Tiecco, C ^a   Rubeca, M ^a   Papili, R ^a   Pasticci, F ^a   Casali, L ^a   Ferrara, G ^a,b   Baldelli, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Admissions; Anti tuberculosis drug resistance; Foreignborn; Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOSALICYLIC ACID; AZITHROMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLOFAZIMINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSERINE; ETHAMBUTOL; ETHIONAMIDE; IMIPENEM; ISONIAZID; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MORINAMIDE; MOXIFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PEFLOXACIN; PROTIONAMIDE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFABUTIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TERIZIDONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; ITALY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREND STUDY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84859718126     PISSN: 10273719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.11.0618     Document Type: Article

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